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...fatherly eye on many of their onetime colonies and protectorates in Africa: last year, for example, Paris dispatched troops to help Chad put down a Libya-backed rebellion. Shortly after last week's clash in Gafsa, three French Navy warships-a cruiser, a frigate and an escort vessel -slipped out of their Mediterranean base at Toulon. The government claimed they were headed for maneuvers near Crete, but officials suggested that the ships would first "show themselves" off the Tunisian coast. In addition, the French have apparently sent transport planes and helicopters to Tunisia. Washington reinforced Paris' implicit warning...
schooner R/V (for research vessel) West ward is heading for water only three fathoms deep. Exams or not, the students are needed on the double to lower some 7,000 sq. ft. of sail so Westward will be moving slowly as it leaves the safety of deep water. The sophomores and juniors, drawn from two dozen U.S. colleges, drop their pens and scramble to their stations, some grabbing halyards on deck, others swinging into the ratlines 20 ft. above...
...charge of the schooner's scientific activities, which include round-the-clock net tows to analyze ocean life and water samples daily at depths up to two miles. They hone their seamanship on the six-week voyage, navigating by sun and stars across the open ocean, guiding the vessel through changing weather under the watchful eyes of the ship's mates and captain. Says Captain Sidney Miller, 52: "At first the students can't believe we'll let them make mistakes. But we do, as long as they don't threaten the safety...
...after the Three Mile Island accident gave more mileage to the term, "China Syndrome," Joseph Hendrie, then chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, concluded: "It would be prudent to consider expeditiously the provision of instrumentation that would provide an unambiguous indication of the level of fluid in the reactor vessel." Translation: we need more accurate measuring devices. A company vice president dismissed the incident as an exaggeration. What had happened, he said, was "a normal aberration." In the same spirit, federal antitrust lawyers refer to "conscious parallelism"-first cousin to price fixing...
...investigating committee headed by Earl Warren brings in its report on the Connecticut Yankee meltdown. The report claims that a single neutron which passed through all 54 graphite damping rods, the containment vessel, the cooling system and 3 technicians caused the chain reaction leading the the meltdown...